Sketch of Man Seated in Armchair

This ink sketch by American painter Daniel Huntington captures a figure study of a seated man, rendered with rapid, economical linework. The artist's attention to drapery and pose demonstrates academic drawing practice of the period. Huntington worked across portraiture, history painting, and genre scenes, training a generation of American artists. Such preparatory sketches formed the foundation of nineteenth-century studio practice, where artists built compositional knowledge through constant observational drawing before executing finished works in larger formats.